Chapter 111: When You Hit the Wall, You Know to Turn Back
After 20 minutes, everything was finalized.
Xu Qingzhou followed Gu Zhizhong back to the office. Meng Bin and the other man were not there as they had gone to work on a project.
Gu Zhizhong waved his hand and asked Xu Qingzhou to sit down first, then said: "Xiao Xu, Dean Tao has already said that our School of Mathematics will fully support whatever you want to do. If you need anything, just tell me."
"There are indeed things that require the college's help right now." Xu Qingzhou sighed.
"You are really rude, kid," Gu Zhizhong scolded with a smile, and waved his hand, signaling Xu Qingzhou to talk about the matter: "Tell me, what is it."
Xu Qingzhou said: "I would like to apply to use the supercomputer in the college."
"Supercomputer?" Gu Zhizhong was stunned, thought for a moment, and asked, "Are you still studying the Cramer conjecture?"
The prime number screening of Cramer's conjecture requires high-powered computers, and a formal proof system is needed to verify other complex mathematical theorems.
"Yes, I need to use supercomputers to perform large-scale calculations and simulations." Xu Qingzhou nodded in acknowledgment.
Gu Zhizhong thought that the young people nowadays are more perseverant than they were back then. After so much time, they haven’t given up yet. It’s true that young people will inevitably hit the wall.
While expressing his feelings, he was a little curious: "Is everything going well?"
Xu Qingzhou shook his head and said, "It's very difficult, so I want to try using the college's supercomputer to see if there are any new insights."
Applying for supercomputers is very cumbersome. Generally, it is for a scientific research team or a research project. However, his is a personal research. First, there is no project, and second, there is no record. Various certificates are definitely required.
Gu Zhizhong was not surprised. It would be strange if a mathematical conjecture could be solved so easily, so he nodded and said, "No problem. I'll call the teacher at the college's supercomputing center."
As he spoke, he had already picked up his phone and dialed a number, saying that a student wanted to apply for a supercomputer room and asked the other party to figure out the process.
"I've already told you that they're off work now. You can go directly to Mr. Huang Mingtai in the afternoon."
"Thank you, professor." Xu Qingzhou thanked him.
Gu Zhizhong shook his head, thinking of something else, and then asked, "How is the progress of your math paper?"
Xu Qingzhou smiled and said, "It has passed the review. I replied to the authorization email on the evening of the 19th. It will probably be published this month."
"It's quite fast." Gu Zhizhong was a little surprised.
"It's all luck."
Gu Zhizhong took a sip of tea, looked at the young face opposite him, and sighed, "One month, two SCI papers, you are going to break the record of our School of Mathematics."
"Thanks to the teacher's good teaching." Xu Qingzhou smiled modestly.
"Stop flattering me. You have to take care of physics as well. If you fall behind in math, I won't show you mercy."
At 12 noon, Xu Qingzhou came out of the School of Mathematics and turned on his mobile phone, only to find that the project team’s small group had exploded.
Gong Yunfei: "Junior brother, is this you?!"
Gong Yunfei sent a photo, which showed the paper written by Xu Qingzhou.
Xu Qingzhou: "Yes."
Gong Yunfei: “Awesome!”
Wang Wei sighed: "Junior brother, how can we live like this?"
Hong Yayu rarely spoke in the group: "Junior brother, you are awesome."
Wu Tianyu: "Brother, I like you more and more."
Looking at this message, Xu Qingzhou's head was full of black lines. This woman is still harboring evil intentions.
Administration building of the Institute of Physics.
When Nie Zuozhen and Ji Yunshi came back, they saw an old man walking out of the Physics Building in a hurry. He looked like he was going to fight someone. Looking at the anxious Zhao Shengwen, Ji Yunshi asked, "Old Zhao, what's the matter that's so urgent?"
That’s right, this person is Zhao Shengwen.
Even at this moment, he still couldn't suppress the shock in his heart.
Isn’t it a waste of talent for such students to stay in the School of Mathematics?
Zhao Shengwen originally planned to look for Nie Zuozhen and Ji Yunshi, and take them to the Mathematics Institute to ask for people, but both of them were not there, so he thought of going to the Mathematics Institute by himself.
"Dean Nie, Old Ji, it just so happens that you are all here. I discovered a physics genius!"
As he spoke, he felt a little regretful and said, "Unfortunately, this person is from the School of Mathematics. I went to ask Gu Zhizhong from the School of Mathematics for it last time, but failed."
"However, if the hospital intervenes, there might still be a possibility!"
Looking at the excited Zhao Shengwen, Nie Zuozhen and Ji Yunshi both sighed at the same time.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Shengwen asked.
Ji Yunshi smiled bitterly: "Old Zhao, it's useless. We just came back from the School of Mathematics. The little guy was quite stubborn and didn't want to come. He said he wanted to learn mathematics first."
"Don't want to come?" Zhao Shengwen was poured with a basin of cold water. He gritted his teeth and said unwillingly, "Is there no other way?"
"We have discussed that we can use the talent channel to open up a second degree for him, in theoretical physics. In other words, Xu Qingzhou is now also a member of our college." Nie Zuozhen was in a good mood.
Zhao Shengwen breathed a sigh of relief, but he felt a little regretful that he did not choose electromagnetism.
Nie Zuozhen was a little confused: "Old Zhao, how do you know him?"
"He was in my MRI experiment."
Zhao Shengwen said with some emotion, "The experiment went so smoothly thanks to the mathematical model he helped to build, which discovered the deviation in our experiment."
"This little guy is incredibly talented."
Nie Zuozhen looked at Ji Yunshi and said, "Old Ji, I'll leave Xu Qingzhou's process to you to coordinate with the School of Mathematics."
"Hey, I'll get this done today."
Xu Qingzhou came out of the professor's office and originally planned to go to the supercomputing center, but when he saw the students leaving school, he remembered that it was already noon, so he simply found an empty classroom and continued calculating.
At 1:, we hit a bottleneck when calculating the conjugate difference of adjacent prime numbers.
Xu Qingzhou went to the library again and found Romeo's "Adjacency Theory and the Method of Accumulation: The Underlying Engine of Mathematics", which contains the content of conjugate differences of adjacent prime numbers, hoping to find a solution.
In the afternoon, Jiao Mingwu was teaching a substitute class, but Xu Qingzhou was also authorized. If he felt it was okay, he didn't have to attend the class to avoid wasting time.
At two o'clock, Xu Qingzhou packed up his things and prepared to apply, thinking that the teachers at the supercomputing center had already gone to work.
There were two teachers on duty.
"Teacher, I'm here to apply for permission to use the supercomputer."
"Are you Xu Qingzhou?" asked the thin middle-aged man wearing glasses.
"Yes."
The thin middle-aged man took out an application form and said, "I'm the management teacher, Huang Mingtai. Your professor Gu called me this morning. Come on, fill in the information first."
Personal information, research project overview, computing resource requirements.
With Gu Zhizhong's guarantee, the entire application process went extremely smoothly. Xu Qingzhou completed all the formalities in 10 minutes.
(End of this chapter)
